$30M senior living community coming to northeast Springfield

Rendering courtesy Health.Mo.Gov

Springhouse Village is planned east of Menards at U.S. Highway 65 and Chestnut Expressway.

Foster Senior Living LLC is developing a $30 million senior living community in northeast Springfield called Springhouse Village East.

Company CEO John Foster said construction on the 100-bed assisted living and memory care center with 37 separate single-family units is slated to start this month at 3863 E. Farm Road 132. The 15-acre site, which Foster Senior Living purchased eight months ago for $1.2 million, is east of the Menards home-improvement store at U.S. Highway 65 and Chestnut Expressway.

“Our market study says there is a need for it,” Foster said. “We’ve been in business for a long time, so we know the market pretty well.”

The Missouri Health Facilities Review Committee this morning approved a 15-bed addition to an original certification of need for an 85-bed assisted living facility given the green light in November 2017. The 15 additional beds have a development cost of $2.1 million, according to the state committee’s agenda.

Foster said a general contractor has not been been finalized for the 95,000-square-foot assisted living center designed by independent architect Eddie Tims.

Foster Senior Living also operates a Springhouse Village in Fayetteville, Arkansas, he said.

Springhouse Village joins a robust list of senior living projects that are underway, planned or recently completed in the Springfield area. Others include:
• Miller Commerce LLC’s $30 million Turners Rock on East Sunshine Street past U.S. Highway 65;
• Morelock Builders & Associates Inc.’s Logan Estates Community, which officials say will be a $100 million mixed-use project in Rogersville;
• Morelock Builders’ The Villages at James River, a $10 million 55-and-older development on 9 acres a mile east of the U.S. Highway 65 and State Highway CC interchange in Ozark;
• the Elfindale retirement community’s $13 million assisted living center at Fort and Elindale streets;
• The Township Senior Living, a $29.5 million project by O’Reilly Development Co. LLC that’s on 10 acres at the southwest corner of Highway M/Republic Road and West Bypass;
• Willow Health Care Inc.’s Copper Rock, a $23 million senior health care community in Rogersville; and
• a senior living continuum-of-care community planned at The Ridge at Ward Branch, a 100-acre mixed-use development on far South Campbell Avenue that, upon completion, would have an estimated value of $500 million.